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Authors

Guido W. Sonnemann, Ph.D., is associate program officer working with UNEP’s
Division of Technology Industry and Economics (DTIE) Production and Consump-
tion Unit in Paris. His responsibilities are within the sustainable consumption pro-
gram in which he is working on linkages between consumption and production as
the secretary coordinating the UNEP/SETAC (Society for Environmental Toxicology
and Chemistry) Life-Cycle Initiative. The mission of this initiative is to develop and
disseminate practical tools for evaluating the opportunities, risks, and trade-offs
associated with products and services over their entire life-cycle in order to achieve
sustainable development.
Dr. Sonnemann is a research fellow of the Environmental Management and
Engineering (AGA) Group at the Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain),
where he received his Ph.D.(2002). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in environmental
engineering from the Technical University of Berlin (1991 and 1995) and an M.Sc.
in water treatment from the Higher Engineering School of Poitiers, France (1996).
Before joining UNEP DTIE in 2002, Dr. Sonnemann worked as a consultant with
the Chemical Technology Center of Tarragona, Spain.
Dr. Sonnemann’s main research interests are in the fields of life-cycle assessment
and life-cycle management; he is especially interested in the linkages of life-cycle
approaches to risk assessment. He is author of several scientific articles in this area
and belongs to the editorial board of the International Journal of Life-Cycle Assess-
ment. He is member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
(SETAC) and of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE).
Dr. Francesc Castells is professor of chemical engineering in the Chemical
Engineering Department of the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain, and
has led the AGA Group (R&D group in environmental analysis and management)
since its founding in 1995.
Dr. Castells received his degree in chemical engineering from Institut Químic
de Sarrià, Barcelona, Spain, in 1970, his Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies from
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in 1972, his Ph.D. from Institut du Génie
Chimique de Toulouse in 1974, and his M.A.Sc. in Chemistry from Universitat de
Barcelona in 1978. From February, 1974, to October, 1976, he worked as plant
chemical engineer in the production department of the petrochemical industry
“Industrias Químicas Asociadas, S.A.” in Tarragona. In 1976 he joined the Chemical
Engineering Department of Rovira i Virgili University, where he has developed wide
teaching and research activity in the field of process and environmental engineering.
He also served as director of the School of Chemical Engineering (Rovira i Virgili
University) from April, 1997, to November, 2001, and co-manages the master envi-
ronmental engineering and management program at the university (Tarragona).

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